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OJ Simpson May Be Released From Prison This Year

O.J. Simpson could be paroled as soon as October after serving just
nine years of his 33-year sentence for kidnapping, robbery and assault —
and he’ll have millions of NFL pension dollars waiting for him.

If he is let out of prison, the 69-year-old former running back for
the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers can cash in on the $2.7
million that has accrued from his retirement benefits, according to a report from the Sunday Express.

But the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman — for whose
murders Simpson was found civilly liable in 1997 — won’t see a penny, as
a pension cannot be collected for outstanding claims.

Simpson has paid very little of the $33.5 million he owes the families.

In order to walk free and enjoy his untouched millions, Simpson must
convince four out of the seven parole-hearing commissioners that he has
kept clean, and avoided gang membership and drug and alcohol abuse while
incarcerated on the remaining seven charges, says the UK-based news
site.

Simpson was paroled on five of his 12 charges in 2013, after
successfully arguing he had displayed good behavior while behind bars.

Simpson has spent the last nine years at the Lovelock Correctional
Center in Nevada, following a 2008 conviction on various charges for the
robbery of sports-memorabilia dealers Alfred Beardsley and Bruce
Fromong.

The disgraced football star maintained he was simply retrieving items the duo had swiped from him.

The 2007 heist — during which Simpson and others stole some 800 items
from a Las Vegas hotel room — came a little over a decade after he was
acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her
friend Goldman.

The fallen football player has maintained his innocence in the double
murder, which was thrust back into the public eye following the 2016
release of “The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story” on FX.

Since the debut, prosecutor Christopher Darden has said he regretted
taking part in the trial — but had no second thoughts about what would
become the most notorious move of his career.

“Let me go on the record and say that I can’t regret it, it’s the
past,” Darden said of his decision to have Simpson attempt to put on the
blood-soaked leather gloves found at the murder scene. “I think
desperate times call for desperate measures. For me, as a lawyer, I’m
always going to try and win.”

The choice laid the foundation for defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran’s
closing arguments, during which he famously told the Los Angeles jury,
“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

OJ Simpson May Be Released From Prison This Year
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